It designates the dark,
glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan.
A tapping came at the door, and I heard the
glutinous accents of M'ling speaking.
And he proposed further, "that by employing spiders, the charge of dyeing silks should be wholly saved;" whereof I was fully convinced, when he showed me a vast number of flies most beautifully coloured, wherewith he fed his spiders, assuring us "that the webs would take a tincture from them; and as he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit everybody's fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other
glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads.
To prevent which, I presently made a large orifice in the vein of the left arm, whence I drew twenty ounces of blood; which I expected to have found extremely sizy and
glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints; but, to my surprize, it appeared rosy and florid, and its consistency differed little from the blood of those in perfect health.
A starving man, however, little heeds conventional proprieties, especially on a South-Sea Island, and accordingly Toby and I partook of the dish after our own clumsy fashion, beplastering our faces all over with the
glutinous compound, and daubing our hands nearly to the wrist.
The day was very hot, and heaps of flies, who were extending their inquisitive and adventurous perquisitions into all the
glutinous little glasses near madame, fell dead at the bottom.
Meanwhile Twemlow, in an increasing hurry of spirits, gets his hair down as well as he can--which is not very well; for, after these
glutinous applications it is restive, and has a surface on it somewhat in the nature of pastry--and gets to the club by the appointed time.
He is conducted by the beadle and the landlord to the Harmonic Meeting Room, where he puts his hat on the piano and takes a Windsor-chair at the head of a long table formed of several short tables put together and ornamented with
glutinous rings in endless involutions, made by pots and glasses.
Chairs, tables, cheffonier, and sofa, all gleamed with the
glutinous brightness of cheap upholstery.
Steamed
Glutinous Rice Stuffed in Red Dates (P238).
One thing that got our curiosities so tickled was this poster of what looks like a copper hotpot filled with a colorful arrangement of fruit cut into cubes and balls with
glutinous rice dumplings aesthetically served on shaved milk ice with a topping of creamy mango sorbet.
Another popular fare at the Ramadan bazaar is the 'ketupat sotong' (squid stuffed with
glutinous rice).
